Posted on 02/22/2021 3:49:55 PM PST by lowbridge
They don’t any longer. The name Scout BSA. The initials are just that now..initials only.
You can't do that when you are an adult leader.
Participation awards for everyone!
They got the BS part right.
Do they have an AddADickToMe badge?
That would be prejudice against a tranny.
Of course there is that sleeping at least one night alone in the woods with no tent or cover. Of course if a girl could do that too, I would call her “wife”. :)
I don’t remember the names, but I’ve seen at least two FReeper Scouting guys cheer girls in Scouting and effuse praise on the girls in their troops. Shocked me both times because, from an outsider’s perspective, it seems pretty obvious why each should be its own thing. Don’t get why they want to help destroy that institution.
I’ll give you one. It is me. I would be willing to bet these girls would kick your a$$ in the outdoors. When the young men of today grow up to be real men, they will want young women that can keep up with them.
The pioneers of this county walked from St. Louis to Oregon. They didn’t leave the women behind, the women walked right along beside them.
Scouts BSA teaches leadership. The merit badges are the tools and the camping is the classroom. If the scout is motivated, they can earn every merit badge there is. It is extremely rare to see a young man that motivated. Girls are that way all the time. They cause the boys to suck it up and get better.
two years? my brother worked his ass off for 4 years to get there.
Thanks for identifying yourself.
Few are chosen
And some will bring a makeup bag
As July arrived, I went to Scout camp in Goshen, VA. I earned my swimming, cooking, canoeing merit badges and a mile swim patch. It was the only time I ever went to Scout camp. I also finished all my requirements for First Class at camp.
We remained in Springfield, VA through the end of the year and I earned the Star rank before moving to Chula Vista.
I had to do the Lifesaving merit badge at Balboa Scout camp (pool). I had a bicycle and needed it to get to my merit badge counselors. Firemanship. Fingerprinting. Electricity. Electronics. Music. Bugling. Rifle and Shotgun Shooting. Citizenship in the Nation. A project for Life Scout and another for Eagle Scout. My Eagle Board of Review was April 12, 1972. My card bears the signature of Richard Nixon.
“I would be willing to bet these girls would kick your a$$.”
Rather than fix the GS, people have moved to destroy the BS. The BS wasn’t supposed to be a boy versus girl competition. At times, boys just want to spend time with their peers. They are moving toward playing computer games together and not having to conform to the woke culture and with your idea of a “real” man. If you are happy with the way it has turned out, great. The BS is dying, however.
Some of my fellow students had obsessed over taking the PSAT. I never did. My preparation for the SAT was a good night's sleep. I applied to UCSD for Winter quarter 1974. I slacked off in the Summer and Fall finishing only 28 semester units at Southwestern College before starting at UCSD in January. There was a 3 week crossover where I was finishing the semester at Southwestern and starting my first quarter at UCSD. That was a royal pain.
I joined in September 1990. Spent many summers at Camp Chawanakee in the Sierras and was lucky enough to go to Philmont the summer of ‘95. I passed my Eagle Board of Review on March 27, 1996 and has Bill Clinton’s signature unfortunately. The BSA omitted Clinton’s signature on Eagle Scout cards when the Lewinsky scandal broke lol.
I had no idea they were still around.
Conservative Boy Scout Alternatives
https://wehavekids.com/youth-programs/Conservative-Boy-Scout-Alternatives
Boy Scouts set a timeline so that all the girls working toward Eagle at the fastest rate possible would all graduate at the same time rather than having ONE finish first and become the de facto female face of the organization.
Yes. The first inaugural class of female Eagle Scouts had 900+ of them. There were hundreds of boys getting it that month, too, but they were overshadowed by the girls.
The Girl Scouts has been far left for years. Hence some conservative parents wanting girls to join that instead of Girl Scouts, but they’re ignoring conservative girl orgs like American Heritage Girls.
From observation, the Girl Scouts shot themselves in the foot ten years ago by actively pushing OUT stay at home mothers. They said stay at home mothers were bad role models, and we don’t want you as leaders. This led to many women with experience (because they had several girls) going to AHG. And it meant the “leaders” left behind were busy working Moms.
Now you get spa day stress relief badges and activist march badges but not camping and adventure ... then the girls cried it isn’t fair, we want to do what the boys are doing.
Having had one in Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and AHG, I will also say that the Girl Scouts’ standards are watered down. The personal finance badge for Girl Scouts has “look up vocabulary” and “create a budget”. The Boy Scouts badge has budgeting, learning about investing, terminology, research. The first aid badge covers far more for Boy Scouts, too.
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